Posted by: wizardcreations on: November 16, Well you can get the performance gain that Ready-boost gives you on XP its just a bit more hidden away. Ready-Boost does not give you extra memory as such but having the page file on a USB flash drive makes it much faster than writing to your hard disk so applications will run faster.
I have made a video to show you how. Readyboost does it the way it is supposed to be done. Putting your entire swap file on a flash drive is retarded. Maybe because Windows is creating the page file before initializing USB drive. Keep it up! But any modern system comes with PCCard or Express card as it is called now , which does support memory cards that are seen as fixed drive. XP will not put a page file on a removable hard drive. Please give the correct tutorial or remove this as it is incorrect.
If you are missing additional steps for this to work, please complete it with the correct tutorial. Thank you. Now this sounds crazy enough. I tried putting a portion of pagefile on my Sandisk Cruzer and on a typical mp3 player.
I noticed that both have pagefile. On the otherhand, the Cruzer blinks as if it is being written upon or read. I know because when the Cruzer is on standby no operations accessing it the blinking is a fade-in and fade out.
When read or written on, it blinks fast — which is what is happening. I was currently running Photoshop, a Openoffice Writer and Firefox 3 at that time.
To further test it, I loaded all 3 applications together consuming a lot of memory and still did the blinking. I have a P4 with RAM. I could not download or even connect to this website : wizardcreations. It can be done actually. Just take note of the total page file size. If the USB pagefile adds up, it means it has been used. So basically, you insert the usb, go to the virtual memory settings, look for your usb drive, allocate a pagefile and check to see if it adds up. Some require restart which is not a good thing.
My PC does not require restart after allocation of the pagefile in the usb — it just uses it instantly! It does seem to work to only several usb drives. The images have been kindly supplied by FA!
Hint: You. WinSite specialty archive. WinSite info center. Download Windows Xp Readyboost Freeware. Windows XP Security Console v. Readyboost is smart enough to know when the cache on flash drive is faster to use than the cache on the hard disk and vice versa. These effects are related to the fact that flash memory can only be written a couple of million times. Your machine will start showing stop errors first… With the current pricelevels for flash media it is an option to just use the information.
Microsoft KnowledgeBase article explains how you can make multiple paging files on a single volume or partition. This makes the information on this page useful, since ReadyBoost has a maximum of 4 GB at the moment.
Windows XP will refuse to run swap off a disk it knows to be removable.
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